SSD issues

[Murrey Mint]

My mate has given me his new SSD as he does not have a copy of windows, I said I would clone my bootable SSD with windows on, to his SSD.

 

I used EaseUS to clone the drive but the BOOTMGR was missing, I also discovered it has partitioned the drive into 2 halves, 121GB and 111GB. I cannot for the life of me get the partitions to go back together and delete the recovery partition. I tried creating a simple volume and extending to absorb the unallocated space but this just gives me an error message saying that there is not enough space. 

 

Many Thanks

 

 

[Enderman]

Why don't you just install windows normally like a regular person?

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

 

When you get to the partitions screen just delete everything there and click next, and it will do everything for you.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

i doubt bootmgt would be copied in a clone,  u can create ur own bootmgr , but then again a standard clean install is better

[Murrey Mint]

I have a clean version of 7 but i didnt think microsoft was allowing free upgrades to windows 10 anymore

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Murrey Mint said:

I have a clean version of 7 but i didnt think microsoft was allowing free upgrades to windows 10 anymore

just install 10 and thun use your windows 7 key.

 

Also if you clone windows 10 it won't be activated as it checks what hardware its on.

[Murrey Mint]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

just install 10 and thun use your windows 7 key.

 

Also if you clone windows 10 it won't be activated as it checks what hardware its on.

Could i do the same with the windows bootable media drive tool?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Murrey Mint said:

Could i do the same with the windows bootable media drive tool?

Yep, just make windows 10 media, and boot from that, don't clone the drives.

[LulaGreen]

Just delete the recovery partition in minitool partition wizard, and then copy disk again.